They already had this type of local processing for years, I believe it was introduced on iOS 9 (perhaps earlier). You can already search “mountain” or “Eiffel tower” or “dog running” and it will work. So if they’re now doing AI processing externally, they’re certainly doing it for different reasons. My bet is they’re collecting personal data regardless of what the ToS claims, and that they’re for sure training AI models on users’ pictures.
They already had this type of local processing for years, I believe it was introduced on iOS 9 (perhaps earlier). You can already search “mountain” or “Eiffel tower” or “dog running” and it will work. So if they’re now doing AI processing externally, they’re certainly doing it for different reasons. My bet is they’re collecting personal data regardless of what the ToS claims, and that they’re for sure training AI models on users’ pictures.
That was my suspicion too, but I didn’t want to come right out and say it without more information